Part 54

42. To pluck some way-side flower, And press it in the choicest nook Of a much-loved and oft-read book.

J. R. LOWELL.

43. A wheel-footed studying-chair, Contrived both for toil and repose, Wide-elbow'd, and wadded with care, In which you both scribble and doze.

COWPER.

44. GENTLEMAN.--Hurrah for you! the wind is up, it bloweth fresh and free, And every chord, instinct with life, pipes out its fearless glee; Big swell the bosom'd sails with joy, and they madly kiss the spray, As proudly through the foaming surge the sea-king bears away.

MOTHERWELL.

44. LADY.--To place your lips to a spiral shell, And breathe through every fold; Or look for the depth of its pearly cell, As a miser would look for gold.

MISS H. F. GOULD.

45. GENTLEMAN.-- The soil to tread Where man hath nobly striven, And life like incense hath been shed An offering unto heaven.

MRS. HEMANS.

45. LADY.--The old study-corner by a nook, Crowded with volumes of the old romance.

N. P. WILLIS.

46. Ay, 'tis to you a glorious sight To gaze on ocean's ample face; An awful joy, a deep delight, To see his laughing waves embrace Each other, in their frolic race.

GEORGE LUNT.

47. You love the pictures that you see At times in some old gallery; You love them, although art may deem Such pictures of but light esteem.

MARY HOWITT.

48. GENTLEMAN.-- A brown cigar, A special, smooth-skinn'd, real Havanna.

MOTHERWELL.

48. LADY.--Your quiet, pleasant chamber, with the rose-vine Woven round the casement.

MISS MITFORD.

49. Old books to read! Ay, bring those nodes of wit, The brazen-clasp'd, the vellum writ, Time-honor'd tomes.

HENRY CAREY.

50. A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms, and dancing feet, And cooing voice, returns an answer sweet.

JOANNA BAILLIE.

51. GENTLEMAN.--To be toss'd on the waves alone, or mid the crew Of joyous comrades, now the reedy marge Clearing, with strenuous arm dipping the oar.

WORDSWORTH.

51. LADY.--When the sail is slack, the course is slow, That at your leisure, as you coast along, You may contemplate, and from every scene Receive its influence.

ROGERS.